Climate change

Helen Craig asks if retailers' inability to respond to freak weather could leave them vulnerable to worsening climate impacts

Superpowers warn that 'overwhelming scientific consensus' on climate change demands more ambitious response

Letter signed by academics, politicians and business leaders warns proposals are unfathomable and short-sighted

75 sports champions warn of warmer winters in latest effort by environmental campaigners to urge president to act on climate

Country faces more frequent and more severe weather events if it fails to make deep and swift cuts to carbon emissions

Just under 60 per cent of the public wants government to invest in areas such as building wind turbines or installing loft insulation

New Commission policy papers also propose 30 per cent of energy comes from renewable sources to offer certainty for investors

Shell climate change adviser says Commission should be more 'heavy handed' with industry to scale up carbon capture and storage technology

Grantham Institute says decisions taken today must be scrutinised to avoid 'locking-in' climate vulnerabilities

Labour's Barry Gardiner argues the Chancellor is right to raise the issue of inter-generational justice, but badly wrong to ignore the impact climate change and resource scarcity will have on our children